Chatper-22 Life Is A Pack Of Cards..

Beauty shuffled her life this side and that side between children and olive she could not leave them out totally, she was there for them as a guardian angel in spite of her presence in their life yet sibo took advantage of them as they grew up.

He used to blackmail the girls and trade in them when one day the youngest was crying and she asked beauty for help beauty compelled her to tell her the truth and she told her she was used, this made beauty furious and angry at first she was shocked she grabbed her daughter's hands and straight went up to sibo and confronted him he was speechless and didn't say anything.

She went to the commissioner office to report the incident from there they directed her to the local police station sibo was called by them she told them everything that he did to her daughter, but here in India only money speaks, he was let out no action was taken on him.

Her eldest daughter supported him instead the blame was on her saying that she was not a good mother. Sad and disappointed she took her younger girl back home with her. She told olive everything that happened he was fond of the girls and instead wanted and hoped for a good life at least for them.

Beauty somehow tried to put her girl to study, she did not have the means but yet she put her to do her correspondence course. A year later beauty was pregnant for olive's child when he heard it he was very much against it, they had arguments fights, he left her house and by now he had brought his wife down to madras from another state.

Beauty's maternal brother Saul her mother's second brother had come down from London somehow he got beauty's whereabouts and got in touch with her, he had come one day to her house and beauty was very disturbed he asked her what was the matter she told him that she was pregnant and that olive was against her having the child and wanted her to abort it.

Her uncle was very angry and he told her he wanted to meet olive, beauty gave the news of her uncle to him and said today we are invited by Saul her uncle for dinner. When evening came olive met beauty and Saul at a restaurant for dinner and on the table, they had a long discussion, olive was not willing he told Saul "I'm not ready to have a kid from her" but Saul consoled olive and told him not to worry he would take the responsibilities of the child.

We as catholic is a sin to abort a child it's a murder he told olive. If only Saul did not do this and save that child, today by God's truth this novel would not have been told to you. Beauty lived separately alone and her uncle helped her has he promised, he sent her every month 20 pound's but that became the biggest issue in beauty's life.

As long as her mother was in her life beauty could not live peacefully. Her mother made up rumours and even told olive that it was not his child but her brother's Saul child. Olive became more doubtful he began Ill treating beauty more and more each day, one-day beauty was in her 8 the month olive approached beauty's mother and requested her to find someone to adopt the child. Her stupid mother started giving word around near her house there was a shop he was a marwadi he had a gold shop beauty's mother approached him and made a deal with him but beauty was aware of this and from that day she did not show herself in front of her mother.

Now sibo and beauty's elder daughter they had left and to another state, in Maharashtra, they settled down there. Beauty had gone to see her third child who was living with sibo while returning back after her visit heavily pregnant she did not have a confirmed seat in the train she had to sleep on the floor, due to this her pregnancy was in risk when she got back home she made a visit to her gynaecologist she had to take a scan and she was informed by the Doctor that her baby was at high risk she had no fluids and that she could lose her baby in spite of all this she informed olive because you know only a mother could tell who the father is.

There were no doubts that it was his child and beauty was never the kind to cheat on him. olive was not in town he was away that day. Beauty tried to reach him but did not hear from him. As advised by her Doctor she got herself admitted to a small hospital nearby where her elder daughter lived.

She called her for help Beauty was put on a monitor the whole night next morning as the doctor was getting her prepared for her surgery exactly by 12 noon she was taken into the operation theatre. She had a C section and gave birth to a beautiful girl. Now God had blessed her with 4 beauty full girls the eldest and the youngest was different by 18 years of age.

Sibo, her eldest daughter they were there by her side in spite of all that happened in the past, beauty had a forgiving nature she could not be rude to anybody and above all her eldest daughter was living with sibo she had no other go but for her daughter's sake had to come in front of them After the third-day olive got the news he took his time and came to see his child half-hearted.

But when he looked at his daughter he was in tears he kept admiring her she had his dimples his colour and was a very beautiful child weighing about 2.8, although she was a preterm baby, she was very healthy at birth. Olive sat there watching his baby this was the first time beauty had undergone a surgery she was very weak and unable to get up and walk but she was determined to get up a walk that very night she slowly got down and with the help on her own, she took one steel the pain was unbearable but she was a stubborn woman she did not give up hopes in anything.

Olive came to the hospital to see her the doctors had discharged her olive asked her where she wanted to go so she requested him to take her straight to the church. Her eldest daughter was living nearby the most famous church our lady of velankhani. Since our mother of good health had brought her out safe she wanted to give thanks and praise.

It was her daughter and sibo who had paid for the hospital bills. For this beauty had to be grateful to them not only the bills but they told her she could come and stay with them until she gets OK. Obvious beauty could not go back with olive he wasn't living in her house she did not have any maids or anybody near her she had no option but to take the offer and live in there house period. Olev would come and visit her sometimes he was a very selfish person financially no doubt he helped her every month.

He would never buy her any household things for her house with the money he gave 5000/- beauty would buy one thing and place in her house. Going along the way back to the past when Irfan left beauty he had given her all his furniture's she had everything and as I told you that half the stuff was taken away by her mother and all she had was a tape recorder a cot her kitchen utensils and clothes.

Once she came across her childhood friend who studied with her in the same boarding. She told beauty that her husband had left her and had gone away leaving her and her two children beauty took pity on her and asked to come and take shelter in her house. Another bitter lesson for beauty.

Being a woman and gone through so much herself she did not want another woman to stay on the roads with her kids. It's obvious after experiencing it urself, you'll never want to see anybody going through that. So beauty with good intensions gave her room and treated her like her own. days went by and one day Shirley her friend.

Came to beauty and suggested that they shift into a bigger two-bedroom house since they were staying in a single bedroom. So beauty agreed she told her that they would share the rent half and live together..it was not a bad idea beauty thought.

So they started looking out for a house somehow they managed to find a good decent house but beauty did not go and see it. Shirley came home and told beauty to give notice to the present owner it was done she informed the owner she would be vacating his house in a couple of days.

That afternoon Shirley and beauty had gone in search for a truck a means of transport to shift all the furniture's in the house to the new one. Mind one thing beauty had never gone and seen the house guess what was to happen.

They had spoken to the driver they came there at midnight and loaded the things into the truck. What was more surprising Shirley discussed with skeeter that she would go and arrange the things and furniture's in the new house and will come back in the morning to take her, And since they had a very tiring day skeeter thought it was a good idea to take some rest for the night.

Skeeter and the kids slept in the empty house that night and waited eagerly for the next morning. What do u think can happen?. Shirley did never turn up she absconded with everything, beauty's clothes, Kids clothes, furniture, everything was gone. Skeeter not only losing her whole things but was sitting in an empty house which she already had to vacate. I can not imagen how can god give so much misfortune to her. But this is why I called my story the invisible stepping stones...

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